2014: My year with Stampotique

This is my last post for Stampotique in 2014.  I have absolutely loved my year on this design team; such a wonderful, friendly group of people.

As it's Boxing Day here in the UK an appropriate final project would have been an altered matchbox, but that only occurred to me as I wrote this post!

I decided to pick out some of my favourite projects from the year and was hoping to put them in a slideshow but couldn't work out how!  So you have a shorter collection of photos from over the last year.

I've never done one of those end of year looking back posts but looking back at these projects is making me consider doing one!

I've made tags, envelopes and journal pages and happily cut, stuck, stitched, sprayed, collaged, stamped, painted and doodled and had a wonderful time :)

I've also made some lovely friends and want to thank Carol, Jim and Kim for having me on team this year.

Thanks for sticking with me on this photo heavy post!  And thanks for supporting me through my Stampotique adventure :)

 Wishing you all the very best for 2015, Sarah xx

Astrid on Sunday

Happy Sunday!!! On this Sunday I want to look back at some art journal pages I made this year. All are made in different journals and with different techniques/mediums.

Thanks for stopping by!

Astrid

Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree ...

... how lovely are your branches!

I love twiggy trees like this and would be quite happy with this as a Christmas tree, I'd just add white lights and some silver baubles.

Stampotique stamps used:

Oh...Tree  #6152  by Daniel Torrente

Text star with tiny star on side  #3027  by Jo Capper-Sandon

romantic text  #10028  by France Papillon

butterfly collage art journal page

Apologies for being AWOL last week, work was manic, including the weekends!!  Life of a teacher eh!

But this weekend just gone I made time to play around with some stamped collage elements in my journal.  I'm particularly enjoying using pencil on my journal pages

This weekend I'm meeting up with crafty friends so they'll be more journaling happening I'm sure :)

Stampotique stamps used:

paris postcard  #8964  Carol's Collection

small butterfly  #3018    by Jo Capper-Sandon

baroque background  #7109  Amy Wilson-Wellenstein

numeric  #7164  by Amy Wilson-Wellenstein

Astrid on Sunday

Hello you!!! And happy Sunday :-) Today I have an art journal page I want to share with you. This one is made in a small handmade journal. I did this on my Gelli Plate.

Stamps used:

Lissi

Sometimes

Text Blog 3#

Thanks for stopping by!

Astrid

art journaling on the train

It might look like it ..

but this isn't quite the same journal that I've been enjoying working in recently.  I took a baggie of art journaling supplies away with me on our recent trip to London, including my little Daler Rowney journal (which is about 4"x 6" in size, a nominal A6) but when it came to the journey home I realised I'd accidentally packed it into my suitcase!

Fortunately we'd happened to shop at the Chelsea School of Art and Design shop (next to the Tate Britain, open to the public, very very cheap :)  ) and that journal I did have in my bag! It's a proper square but similar in size to my Daler Rowney (Sea White chunky small, approx 5.5" square)

What I LoVe about working in artist quality sketchbooks is that the paper is heavy enough to take wet media so no gessoing, no gluing of pages together to make them thick enough etc

Having said that, I did glue in a brusho background before collaging on top (with more brusho backgrounds, letraset and those gorgeous stamped numerals!!)  !

It was a very therapeutic activity for a train journey!

Stampotique stamps used:

numeric  #7164  by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

antique description  #7228  by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

romantic text  #10028  by France Papillon

circles on a journal page

I am very happy with this journal page spread!

It started off as a bit of a rubbish gelli print which I painted over with some turquoise brusho, thinking it might lift it - it did!!

Then I started playing around with Daniel's circles cube from Stampotique

and lots of variety in text and numerals.  The background numeral piece is from my scratch paper on my worktable; it's how I clean my stamps - by stamping them repeatedly on scrap paper!!

Add some doodling ... and Sarah is a happy art journaller!!

Stampotique Stamps used:

Daniel's circles cube  #6184  by Daniel Torrente

Romantic Text  #10028  by France Papillon

Numeric  #7164  by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

Baroque Background  #7109  by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

Antique Description  #7228  by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

french journal page

This journal page just kind of evolved; it started off as a scrap piece of paper but the sponged ink through the stencil took over and I love how many of France Papillon's new release for Stampotique made it onto the page!

I was also thrilled to discover that France's romantic text refers to a visit to a chateau, which I thought co-ordinated brilliantly with her chandelier  and made for a great collection of collage images.

Stampotique stamps used:

France's chandelier  #10023   France Papillon

romantic text  #10028  France Papillon

optique  #10027  France Papillon

ticket for paris  #10026  France Papillon

text block 3  #7140  Amy Wilson Wellenstein

numeric  #7164  Amy Wilson Wellenstein

baroque background  #7109  Amy Wilson Wellenstein

back to my art journal

Been playing in my journal again :)

I used some 'scratch paper' as the background for my page then played with my Stampotique stamps.

This is in my 'paperback book' sized journal which I got from Paperchase aaaaaages ago but love for it's different size.

Stampotique stamps used:

2 nuages (fr)  #9248 by Janet Klein

row of numbers  #7213  by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

numeric  #7164  by Amy Wilson Wellenstein

barcode  #10019  by France Papillon

raindrops  #5820  by Magda Polakow

dog  #2433  by Roc Nicholas

rain text  #12022   by Linda Peterson

daisy, daisy  #3002  by Jo Capper-Sandon

Black & White with a Pop of Color - Wednesday's with Claudine

Happy Wednesday everyone

Wednesday's always mark new challenge over at Stampotique Designer's Challege Blog and this week our sweet and wonderful Kay Wallace has chosen our theme.

The new theme is Black and White with a Pop of Color and I love this theme. Black and white is sometimes hard to do but it sure is fun.

For this theme I wanted to do a Zentangle, I love zentangle but I have only occasionally tried to do them. I have always been a doodler, even back in school. We had to wrap our books in brown paper bags to cover them and I would always draw on my covers. Brown paper! Who likes that? haha!

I used Stampotique Stamp

Night - By Artist Magda Polakow

I love this stamp, it's so cool, Magda really captures the "soul" of the characters

I included one of my favorite Bible verses on this two page journal spread

I hope you like my Zentangle journal page, Have a wonderful day!

Astrid on Sunday

Happy Sunday!!! That means that it's my turn to entertain you :-D
Today I have a journal page for you, yep, made with the Gelli Plate. This wonderful green background was screaming for this cool froggy.

Stamps used:

Old Timey Frog

Bikeride Text

Scalloped Laced Banner

Antique Description

Thanks for stopping by!

Astrid

art journaling with Stampotique

I love these little quails of Janet Klein's and use them quite a bit in my journals.

It's the busiest time of year for me at the minute, but that'll finish today when school finishes for the Summer.  So I'm sharing a journal page I made a while ago using my Stampotique stamps - I've loved this company's images for a long, long time.

I rarely write in my journals but I do enjoy using snippets from book; old books often have the most fantastic phrases.

Stampotique stamps used:

Quails cube  #9211   by Janet Klein

Daisy Daisy  #3002  by Jo Capper-Sandon 

Astrid on Sunday

Hello you!! I have an art journal page for you this week, with another cute Quasimoto stamp. The page was made with my Gelli Plate.

Stamps used:

Quasimoto 5

Great Moon

I feel happy inside

Vintage Script

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely Sunday!!

Astrid

Astrid on Sunday

Sunday again... so my turn to show you something here :-D
I have made an art journal page on my Gelli Plate. Love my plate, my page has only two layers and (in my eyes) it looks amazing. I have used the gorgeous new Sunflower stamp from Janet and the perfect sentiment stamp for it from Maria.

Stamps used:

Sunflower large

Grow your dreams

Text Block 3#

Thanks for stopping by!

Astrid

Astrid on Sunday

Hello you!! I hope you have a happy Sunday so far.
Today I have an art journal page for you, made on my Gelli Plate. I have used 3 layers of paints and stencils. Stamped with a script stamp, with the color of my first layer, so it stays in the background. Stamped with the Dandelion stamp to create a border. The monsters (oh how I love them) are colored with Ditress Markers and put on some Washi tape, so they will not float on my page.

Stamps used:

Smitten Moustache Monsters

Enjoy Today

Dandelion Duo

Fax to Wolfgang

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy today!

Astrid

Astrid on Sunday

Happy Mothers Day to all who's celebrating and of course a happy Sunday to all :-D
Today I have an journal page for you, made with my Gelli Plate. I have used some new stamps from the Spring release. And the quote is computer generated.

Stamps used:

Twinkie

Happy, Happy, Happy

Happy Head Appliances Cube

Journey Collage

Thanks for stopping by!

Much Love

Astrid

Astrid on Sunday

Hello you!!! Have you already did the Blog Hop? Stampotique has add some amazing new stamps to the collection. And because of the new release I really wanted to use some new stamps for my Sunday post. I embossed France's new awesome background stamp French Journal Ledger. And I used Janet's new lovely lady Verdette for my focal point. Further I used Dylusions to color my background.

Stamps used:

Verdette

French Journal Ledger

Stacked Love

Thanks for stopping by!

Much Love

Astrid

Astrid on Sunday

Happy sunny Sunday!! Cause it's gorgeous weather here in The Netherlands. Hopefully you are also enjoying some lovely Spring weather, wherever you are :-D
This week I made an art journal page again with my Gelli Plate. I stamped Roc's Angel on the page, paper pierced her and colored her with Distress Markers.

Stamps used:

Roc's Angel

A Single Sunbeam

Dear Elizabeth

Thanks for stopping by!

Much Love

Astrid

a little bit of art journaling

This is my new art journal ...

... it's tiny!  

There's some more info about it over on my blog.  Thanks for visiting!!

Sarah

Stampotique stamps used:

Cockatoo Screech by Kylie DiOrio

Banner by France Papillon

Astrid on Sunday

I'm not really in my flow at the moment... so this art journal page is a gentle push for myself to do something about it ;-) I used my Gelli Plate for this one.

Stamps used:

Upward Bound

Reach your goals

Vintage Script

Thanks for stopping by!

Much Love

Astrid